TY  - GEN
AB  - Modernity and Education in Colonial Punjab explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province of Punjab in 1892 by the religious minority community of the Sikhs. Addressing topics such as politics, religion, rural development, militarism or physical education, the study shows how Sikh educationalists and activists made use of and localised communal, imperial, national and transnational discourses and knowledge. Their modernist visions and schemes transcended both imperialist and mainstream nationalist frameworks and networks. In its quest to educate the modern Sikh scientific, practical, disciplined and physically fit the college navigated between very local and global claims, opportunities and contingencies, mirroring modernitys ambivalent simultaneity of universalism and particularism.
AU  - Brunner, Michael Philipp,
CN  - LG169.A62
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-53514-8
DO  - doi
ID  - 959056
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Sikhs
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-53514-8
N2  - Modernity and Education in Colonial Punjab explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India. As a case study, it focuses on the hitherto untold colonial history of Khalsa College, Amritsar, a pioneering and highly influential educational institution founded in the British Indian province of Punjab in 1892 by the religious minority community of the Sikhs. Addressing topics such as politics, religion, rural development, militarism or physical education, the study shows how Sikh educationalists and activists made use of and localised communal, imperial, national and transnational discourses and knowledge. Their modernist visions and schemes transcended both imperialist and mainstream nationalist frameworks and networks. In its quest to educate the modern Sikh scientific, practical, disciplined and physically fit the college navigated between very local and global claims, opportunities and contingencies, mirroring modernitys ambivalent simultaneity of universalism and particularism.
SN  - 9783030535148
SN  - 3030535142
T1  - Education and modernity in colonial Punjab :Khalsa College, the Sikh tradition and the webs of knowledge, 1880-1947 /
TI  - Education and modernity in colonial Punjab :Khalsa College, the Sikh tradition and the webs of knowledge, 1880-1947 /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-53514-8
ER  -